, have severe impacts on countries and their populations, particularly those living in poverty and in socially vulnerable …

In 2012, the Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) region continued its successful drive to reduce poverty and build … the middle class. Poverty reduction was accompanied by strong income growth of the bottom 40 percent of the population …'s poverty reduction strategy needs to focus on restoring growth and preserving macroeconomic stability, while reinforcing the …

poverty : concepts and measures -- Five facts about chronic poverty in Latin America and the Caribbean -- Drivers of chronic … poverty -- From diagnosis to policies : design elements to support the chronic poor -- References -- Appendix …

This paper contributes to the methodological literature on the estimation of poverty lines for country poverty … official extreme and moderate poverty lines across 18 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as the recent … the dispersion of country-specific poverty lines, the paper concludes that the value of a regional poverty line largely …

into slowing social gains, including decelerating poverty reduction, stagnating growth of the middle class, and lower … income growth. The countries of South America outperformed Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean in poverty reduction … during the decade up to 2012. But since then, a new story has emerged. In recent years, poverty reduction has been …

Strong poverty reduction in Latin America resumed with the growth rebound in 2010, as both moderate and extreme poor … households benefitted from the recovery, accelerating poverty reduction to rates similar to those witnessed between 2003 …-2006 despite a 2.8 percent decline in Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita in Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) terms, poverty …

For the last decade, economic growth in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) has sharply accelerated, pushing poverty … make optimistic predictions less certain and threaten to undermine gains against poverty and inequality, it is critical to … have played a critical role in achieving the poverty declines of the last decade, with their labor market participation …

Weather risk and incomplete insurance markets are significant contributors to poverty for rural households in …

Hardly any literature exists on the relationship between equivalence scales and poverty dynamics for transitional … countries. This paper offers a new study on the impacts of equivalence scale adjustments on poverty dynamics in the Russian … household demographic composition. The adjustments for the equivalence of scales result in lower estimates of poverty lines. The …